ARRIVAL OF THE CALIFORNIAN MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

Evening Star, Issue 4060, 1 March 1876, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE CALIFORNIAN MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

Auckland, March 1. The City of Melbourne, with the English mail, 8 a.m. She left Frisco at 1 a.ro. on the 7th February (Auckland time) and Honolulu at 4 a.m. on tbe 16th, making the passage across r» 22 days. 30 hours, including 15 hours detention at Honolulu. She experienced a heavy grle the day after leaving Fusco, 'which lasted 48 hours. The rest of the passage was fine. She hue only two sa'oon passengers for Auckland, Mr Sinclair and Hr Mahaber, and seven for Sydney, besides 32 steerage. The Granada arrived from Kandavau 20 minu'es later than the City of Melbourne, which did not call at Fiji. ENGLISH AND FOREIGN SUMMARY. Severe engagements have occured between Turkey and the insurgents. Montenegro is threatened. . The Municipality of Moscow voted 16,000 dollars in a s d of the Herzegovina tebels, but the governor of that ci v refused to remit the money, it is said that the agents of the Bus nan Ambassador are urging the Bosians to join the insurrection. England in assenting to Count Andrassy’s scheme of reform _ made . certain reservations concerning ag.arian laws and the sale of crown lands to villagers. Austria will take vigorous measures in the spring to disarm the insurgents who cros< the border. The Catholic clergy in Germany are urging the Pope to the acceptance of the Ecclesiatical laws in o:der to deprive them of their, power against the church. Queen Victoria visits the Imperial Court wh le in Germany. , Four French army officers were cashiered for attending the funeral service on the anniver* sary of the death of Napoleon; and Brassel, another Bohapartist, has been sentenced to a fine and imprisonment, under the new Press laws, for distributing,. without authority, invitations to mars on the same occasion

Simeon has reported to the Pope that the King of Sjtain is compelled to accept the alliance of the so-called defenders of religious liberty, in order to secure political victory. Anuther attempt to blow up a steamer at Antwerp, with 150 people on board, has been discovered.

A complete agreement for the English Channel tunnel has been' arrived at. One of the BlaokwaH line of steamers, the Harvest Queen, collided with the steamer Adiiatm in the English Channel, and was sunk with all on board.

At the trial of Richard Bonner Oakley, the proprietor of the co-operative Bank of London, on a charge of fraud, it was shown that he hj id received forty thousand pounds deposits from the public, and only eleven shillings was found in the Bank when an entrance was made, a'though a lady had paid in seven hundred pounds t' at day. _ The Gambrsi mission has succeeded in placing a steamer on Lake Nyanza. Three hundred British troops have been dispatched from India to escort the Grosvenor mission through Burmah to British territory.’

A MERIC AN NEWS. The railroad track at Valcose points is snowed up, causing a stoppage in the traffic. Chinamen were engaged m cleari .g it, but At sonie points the snow drif ed as fast as it could be shovelled away. Senator Sherman, chairman of the Senate Committee of Finance, is pushing a Bill through. Its object is uniform specie payments in England and America on the basis of the American dollar. The London ‘Tim*s’ endorses the proposal, but considers the sovereign should be adopted as causing less inc nvenieuce in the change, owing to the large amount of paper money in America. A conference, embracing all nations, to consider the subject of un ver.al coinage is urged by the American Pre?s.

Robbe-s entered the Northampton Bank, gagged the cashV, and stole funds to the vaiue of three quarters of a million dollars, f;' In the Otario Leris’ature a Bill giving women rghta to vote, a municipal elections was negatived, A terrible boiler explosion has occu-red at Texas. A : ortion of a boiler weighing ren tdftfi was earned 260 ft. Two men were killed. The other workmen escaped miraculously.

A ooSfention oandudedbetween the Halted StateTand Queensland (?). The mail is to be transported!!! tie-direct line of Colonial packets, plying ci<eo and Australia. Full letter postage each way will be twelve cents, and newspapers tWo cents. ; The winter is the most- severe expfrienced in America for several yean. Th ere great storms on the Atlantic and in eastern cities of the tJhifed States, oausne great damage. **ts •. In the last engagement of the Winter campaign of Cnln. between five thousand Spanish troops and fmr ‘thousand insurgents, the Spanish army was compelled to retire, with • the loss of 114 men.